engendered

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Definition of engendered

3 senses · 2 parts of speech

adj

  1. Having a strong association with gender; gendered.
    “The professor's study is perhaps the novel's most engendered space, yet it is in a way different from its other settings.”
    “In her study of women lawyers in America, historian Virginia Drachman has maintained that "more than any other profession women sought to enter in the nineteenth century, law was the most engendered and closed to women.””
    “To the ancient Romans, wool work obviously represented a very engendered issue and on an ideological level it may be seen as representing a polarization of male and female spheres in society.”
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adj

  1. Having a strong association with gender; gendered.
    “The professor's study is perhaps the novel's most engendered space, yet it is in a way different from its other settings.”
    “In her study of women lawyers in America, historian Virginia Drachman has maintained that "more than any other profession women sought to enter in the nineteenth century, law was the most engendered and closed to women.””
    “To the ancient Romans, wool work obviously represented a very engendered issue and on an ideological level it may be seen as representing a polarization of male and female spheres in society.”
  2. Having been produced or begotten.
    “After a longer period, of six or eight months, the engendered disease was so mild that all the animals speedily recovered and regained health and strength.”
    “Without going into the details of these matters, the engendered feelings seemed to have culminated in the fact that appellant claimed that there had been a settlement between them, and deceased owed him $ 200, which was admitted by the deceased .”
    “To place oneself in the position of the engendered being, and to describe birth, rather than fecundity, brings to the surface another meaning of mortality.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of engender

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